Oneway banjo

[olaf Vogel]

It’s been a while since I last posted, or turned anything. Moving, new job, kid….all the usual distractions that come with life!

But I am I’m the process of getting my lathe up and running again.

A Oneway banjo is something I’m looking at but need to check the mounting system in the bottom to understand if it will work for my solution.

If anyone has such a banjo can you take a picture or two of the bottom and how the clamping mechanism pulls up the bolt (or conversely the top down)

Thanks
Olaf

 

[Kevin Jenness]

This video explains it in detail. Oneway banjo You just need a clamping block to fit your machine's ways. I replaced my General 260's banjo with a Oneway and it was well worth it.

 

[John Hebdon]

I have a JET banjo that has some pockmarks in it from the manufacturing process. JET sent me a new one. You cover the shipping and she is yours. If that helps.

Banjo came off a JWL-1642EVS

 

[Richard Coers]

I have a JET banjo that has some pockmarks in it from the manufacturing process. JET sent me a new one. You cover the shipping and she is yours. If that helps.

Banjo came off a JWL-1642EVS

A Jet banjo is not in the same class as a Oneway.

 

[robo hippy]

I have not seen this before about the Oneway Banjo. Their solution to the flexing of the cam shaft for the base is some thing that I would expect is a simple solution that some one should have thought of a long time ago. I do like the long lever for the tool rest lock down, and the set up for locking the tool rest in to place. The standard set screw is not very good.

robo hippy

 

[hockenbery]

Call ONEWAY. They sell lots of after market banjos and can fit most manufactured lathes.
if your lathe is custom built they can tell you if they have one to fit yours if you tell then ways gap, ways thickness, and spindle height.

 

[Joe Kaufman]

If you have a few tool rests that you want to be able to use, the dimensions of those should be taken into consideration. Post diameter and post length plus overall height of tool rest.

 

[olaf Vogel]

This video explains it in detail. Oneway banjo You just need a clamping block to fit your machine's ways. I replaced my General 260's banjo with a Oneway and it was well worth it.

Puuurfect. That explains the mechanism.
And it will likely work for me. Its of an unusual setup




Where hopefully I can screw the banjo clamp on here



If that helps...

 

[Vincent Vogel]

You won't be able to blame any vibration on the lathe

 

[Dean Center]

Call ONEWAY. They sell lots of after market banjos and can fit most manufactured lathes.
if your lathe is custom built they can tell you if they have one to fit yours if you tell then ways gap, ways thickness, and spindle height.

$350 for a banjo! (Hopefully that's Canadian, but probably not)

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

$350 for a banjo! (Hopefully that's Canadian, but probably not)

When you buy a Oneway lathe, the banjo does come with it , and if you don't buy their lathe and want their banjo, you will have to pay the price .

 

[hockenbery]

$350 for a banjo! (Hopefully that's Canadian, but probably not)

circa 1980 the county was phasing out school shop. Every 6 months they put out a bid list. I buddy and I would go look at the stuff and send in our sealed bids. over a few years we outfitted our own shops and fixed up and made a few dollars on equipment we didn’t want. one learning experience was buying a 12” delta lathe with a cracked tailstock for $100. Imagine our surprise when we learned a replacement tailstock was $250….